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Sharla Gelfand

I am a statistician and an R and Shiny developer. My work focuses on developing tools that enable easier access to data (such as my R package, opendatatoronto) and replacing manual, repetitive work with reproducible and future-proof processes. I write about R at sharla.party and contribute to open source.

Experience

Freelance R and Shiny Developer

N/A

Toronto, ON

Jan. 2018 - Present

  • Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
  • Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.

Statistician

College of Nurses of Ontario

Toronto, ON

Jul. 2018 - Sep. 2019

  • Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
  • Built internal tool to help analyze and visualize user interaction with back-end products.

Data Analyst

Wattpad

Toronto, ON

Apr. 2017 - Jun. 2018

  • Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
  • Worked with the product analytics team to help parse and visualize large stores of data to drive business decisions.

Product Analyst

Unbounce

Vancouver, BC

Nov. 2015 - Mar. 2017

  • Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
  • Envisioned
  • prototyped and implemented visualization framework in the course of one month.

Education

Msc, Statistics

Simon Fraser University

Vancouver, BC

2013 - 2015

  • Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
  • 2020
  • Working on Bayesian network models & interactive visualization platforms

Bsc, Statistics (minor in Economics)

University of Calgary

Calgary, AB

2010 - 2013

  • Incorporated d3.js to the company’s main software platform.
  • 2015
  • Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana

Talks

Don’t repeat yourself, talk to yourself! Repeated reporting in the R universe

RStudio Conference

San Francisco, CA

Jan. 2020

Cleaning Federal Election Data

University of Toronto iSchool Data Cleaning Brown Bag

Toronto, ON

Oct. 2019

Demo’ing the opendatatoronto R package

Greater Toronto Area R Users Group

Toronto, ON

Sep. 2019

Opinionated Strategies for Uncharted Territories: Strategies for working with new data

Greater Toronto Area R Users Group and R-Ladies Toronto

Toronto, ON

Mar. 2019